"It's the right
direction to go in.
We're a society that
is absorbing
information in a way
that we never
imagined we would
be doing. We have a
whole new
generation of news
viewers that have
been trained on the
Internet..."

- Teya Ryan, EVP and general manager of CNN Headline News

"The Sept. 11
terrorist attacks
took the use of
crawls to a new
level. Just about
every major news
network--with the
exception of ABC
News--launched a
continuous crawl to
spit out breaking-
news developments
as they occurred."

- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/3/2001

"Crawls are good
journalism when
they augment a
program in progress
with important news
told in context... "

- Jill Geisler, Poynter Institute

Deliver a continual stream of global, national and local headlines to your viewers

Need a dedicated, high-priority information feed to broadcast headlines?
Our proprietary TV-Ticker News Agent enables you to scroll real-time information
to Broadcast, Satellite and Cable-TV viewers. Relying on our proven Intelligent Agent technology,
you can now stream headlines from multiple sources, including your in-house headlines,
alongside your local news. For a fraction of the price of dedicated CG-based systems,
you can have a professional news crawl and be the first to provide breaking local news and
ongoing national news to your viewers.

Overview

TV-Ticker enables a broadcaster to integrate continuous news
feeds from multiple sources. Once programmed, the information agent
continuously crawls to the data source for top stories and streams them live to the
TV screen. You specify the source of news, and TV-Ticker delivers.
Information is displayed in a
continuous cycle, changing as news changes, so that the ticker can be displayed
indefinitely. Best of all, TV-Ticker does not require dedicated servers or full-time
technical positions to incorporate and manage. The newsroom specifies the information
source, control of the information, flow and accessibility.
Adding or eliminating content sources is flexible and can be changed at any time.

"Intelligent agents are software entities that carry out some set
of operations on behalf of a user, with a degree of independence or autonomy, and
in so doing, employ some
knowledge or representation of the user's goals or desires."
IBM -- Intelligent agent definition

WorldFlash Software is the proprietary owner and developer of the advanced TV-Ticker software,
which has been internally developed through a set of programs that use the latest communication
protocols. Combined with expert-system technology, the result is an Intelligent Agent platform
that provides an advanced, yet user-friendly method for retrieving and delivering relevant,
real-time information in regular intervals from a large number of programmable sources. It
automates the process of communicating dynamic information through sophisticated parsing
techniques that can map and analyze the structure of a web-enabled page. The resulting software
is customized to work quietly and relentlessly, seamlessly communicating with various servers
and databases to deliver dynamic information. The TV-Ticker agent executes repetitive (programmable)
tasks systematically, freeing the newsroom to focus on productive daily activities.

We've been the leader in News Tickers for the Personal Computer market since 1997, and
our software has achieved more than one million successful downloads. TV-Ticker uses the
same ultra-reliable code-base developed for our "consumer" product line,
WorldFlash GOLD.

TV-Ticker is a Win32 middleware app that operates at the same level as Web browsers.
Using brilliant coding and combining system timers and multithreading, the agent minimizes the use
of system resources needed (CPU and memory). This is critical for an on-line agent because of the
requirement for temporal continuity and smoothness of operation.
TV-Ticker can generally be "pre-trained" to parse structured
information originating from any of the Internet's common data transport protocols (HTTP,
FTP, POP3, NNTP, XML, RSS, etc). And, because TV-Ticker is fully
Unicode enabled, it
can display information in just about any language on the planet!

Fully Automated Application:

This powerful client-side intelligent agent for the broadcast environment provides an easy-to-use
platform to communicate news and information alongside your TV broadcast signal.
There's no need for a substantial editing station since the software is able to retrieve
information automatically from outside content sources.
Choose from a comprehensive list of external content sources
or alternatively, combine external feeds with a dedicated connection to an internal
news page. Using this
simple and inexpensive method to deliver accurate information to the viewers allows a broadcaster
to free up resources such as a dedicated human operator. The results are smooth and professional,
competing with the "industry standard" solutions at a much lower cost.